Post-1955 Civil RIghts Organisations

NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People Founded = 1909 Aim = Legal and political equality Leaders = Du Bois (1909-1934), Walter White (1934-) Activities =  Worked with trade unionists, churches and white liberals Persuading anti-lynching bills 1934, 1935, 1938 bills all rejected by Southern Democrats Mobilised Southern blacks to campaign against the poll tax Worked through courts to challenge Plessey v Ferguson 1896

UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association Founded = 1914 Leader = Marcus Garvey Aims = Black pride and separatism Activities =  Negro World had a circulation of over 100,000 Inspirational speeches from Garvey Collapsed after Garvey was deported in 1927

CORE: Congress of Racial Equality Founded = 1942 Leader = James Farmer AIms = Black equality on an integrated society Activities =  More militant than NAACP Sit-ins in Chicago restaurants 'Freedom Rides' North/South border states Enforcing Supreme Court ruling of desegregation of interstate transport